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The National Youth Fanfare Orchestra of the Netherlands (in Dutch: Nationaal Jeugd Fanfare Orkest; NJFO) is a semi-professional fanfare orchestra. The musicians of the NJFO are conservatory students and highly talented amateurs between the age of 15 – 25 years.

In the year of 2009, the NJFO will celebrate its 50th anniversary. The NJFO has since its foundation in 1959 contributed much to the musical and professional development of the unique Dutch ‘Fanfare-culture’.

The last few decades the NJFO has done outstanding work regarding the development of young musical talent and the development of new repertoire for fanfare orchestra. Talented musicians preparing for a career in music are presented by the NJFO with the invaluable opportunity of gaining ensemble-playing experience at the highest level.

Many former musicians of the NJFO have become successful professional musicians. Some examples are: Jurjen Hempel (conductor), Pierre Volders (principal trombonist of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra), Herman Rieken (percussionist Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra), Ties Mellema (soloist and professor of saxophone), Esther Doomink (percussionist of the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, and many, many other instrumentalists, composers and conductors have gained musical experience in the NJFO.

In 1989 Danny Oosterman became conductor of the NJFO. Oosterman is professor of conducting at the conservatories of Amsterdam and Utrecht, and he is the conductor of some other highly recommended fanfare orchestras.

The NJFO is seeking out to bring the fanfare orchestra in de spotlight internationally. In 1976 the orchestra won “the grand prize of the city of Vienna’. Between 1989 and 2006 the NJFO visited the USA, Canada, Italy, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Lithuania and Belgium.

2009 is to become a new highlight in the history of the NJFO. Attention for this unique orchestra will be sought by means of new compositions, new cd’s, concerts in well known concert halls, a big reunion and a tour through Switzerland and Italy.